Deep Space High - the school for everything about space

我们的目标是帮助儿童和他们的家庭增加对空间的理解，关注以下主题：·什么是空间·我们的宇宙入门·空间探索和英国的参与·空间的发展·太空生活和未来的太空旅行·以及无数激发想象力的迷人事实我们建议通过一系列简短的音频特写来实现这一点，介绍和突出空间有趣的一面，并通过有组织的教育或作为一种娱乐兴趣，激励儿童和家长发现更多。我们将得到目前在伦敦大学学院行星科学中心工作的Lewis Dartnell博士的协助。刘易斯有向年轻和年长的观众传播太空科学的丰富经验，他将帮助确保我们的主题和材料是相关的和信息量的。这些特写将在Fun Kids上播出，可以在Fun Kids网站(www.funFoundation live.com)和英国无线电播放器上再次收听，并可以在iTunes上免费下载。我们还将把它们作为学校的教育资源。该系列将得到Fun Kids网站上一个专门的微型网站的支持，在那里用户可以找到更多信息、图像、视频、下载和职业信息，并有链接在STFC和其他商定的网站上找到更多信息。这些功能将在风格上提供信息和鼓舞人心，并将为9至12岁的核心儿童受众撰写，尽管根据经验，我们知道年龄较小和较大的儿童也会听取这些功能，以及家长和照顾者。因此，第二个好处是鼓励父母和年长的兄弟姐妹也发现，或许制定家庭计划，以了解更多。我们将在我们的网站上打出横幅，通过每周通讯的社论和美联社的活动来宣传这一系列。我们亦会与学校沟通，让他们知道该系列节目，并让他们下载到课室内使用。为了进一步提高听众对该系列节目的认识，我们会在计划进行期间举办多项为期一周的比赛。这些活动将以简单的问答比赛的形式进行，孩子们有机会赢得书籍(我们可以帮助寻找)，还可能赢得其他合适的奖品(我们可以讨论)。在项目期接近尾声时，我们提议举办一场以空间为主题的短篇小说写作比赛，将最好的故事录制下来并在Fun Kids上播出，供下载。我们发现，这样的比赛有助于激发孩子和家庭更多地了解空间，并围绕主题进行思考。我们将通过听众对这些功能的反应、在线访问以及与父母小组的直接研究、比赛参赛作品和第三方网站的点击水平来衡量成功与否。我们还将通过谷歌分析评估人们对支持在线材料的反应。我们的总体目标是更好地了解太空和英国的参与，并激励孩子和他们的家人发现更多，也许有几个孩子学习科学科目，帮助他们进入太空探索事业。

Our aim is to help increase an understanding of space amongst children and their families, looking at topics such as:• What is space• An introduction to our universe• Space exploration and the UK’s involvement• Developments in space• Life in space and future space travel• And a myriad of fascinating facts to spark imaginationWe propose to do this through a series of short audio features that will engage with children, introduce and highlight the fun side of space, and inspire children and parents to find out more, either through organised education or as a recreational interest. We will be assisted by Dr Lewis Dartnell who currently works in the Centre for Planetary Sciences, UCL. Lewis has a great deal of experience communicating space science to audiences both young and old, and will assist ensuring our topics and material are relevant and informative.The features will be broadcast on Fun Kids, available to listen again on the Fun Kids website (www.funkidslive.com) and the UK Radioplayer, and available as free downloads on iTunes. We will also make them available as an educational resource for schools.The series will be supported by a dedicated micro-site on the Fun Kids website, where users will find additional information, images, videos, downloads and careers information, with links to find out more at the STFC and other agreed websites.The features will be informative and inspirational in style, and will be written for a core child audience aged 9 to 12 year olds, although from experience we know that both younger and older children will also listen to the features, as well as parents and carers. A secondary benefit is therefore encouraging parents and older siblings to also discover, and perhaps develop a family plan to learn more.We will promote the series on-air, with banners on our website, through editorial in our weekly newsletter and through associated press activity. We will also communicate with schools to make them aware of the series and that they will be able to download it for use within the classroom.To further help build awareness of the series amongst listeners, we will run a number of week long competitions during the project period. These will be in the form of simple Q&A competitions with opportunities for children to win books (we can assist with sourcing) and possibly other suitable prizes (which we can discuss). Towards the end of the project period, we propose to run a short story writing competition on a space theme, with the best stories recorded and broadcast on Fun Kids and available for download. We find that such competitions help inspire children and families to find out more about space, and think around the topics.We will measure success through listener reaction to the features, online visits as well as direct research with our parent panel, entries to the competitions and by the level of click thrus to third party websites. We will also review reaction to the supporting online material through Google Analytics.The overall impact that we aim to achieve is a greater understanding of space and the UK’s involvement, and to inspire children and their families to find out more, with perhaps a few children taking up science subjects to help lead them into a career in space exploration.